Important: kpatch-patch security update

Topic

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: bpf: Incorrect verifier pruning leads to unsafe code paths being incorrectly marked as safe (CVE-2023-2163)
• kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags (CVE-2023-3812)
• kernel: use after free in nvmet_tcp_free_crypto in NVMe (CVE-2023-5178)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2224048 - CVE-2023-3812 kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags
• BZ - 2240249 - CVE-2023-2163 kernel: bpf: Incorrect verifier pruning leads to unsafe code paths being incorrectly marked as safe
• BZ - 2241924 - CVE-2023-5178 kernel: use after free in nvmet_tcp_free_crypto in NVMe

CVEs

• CVE-2023-2163
• CVE-2023-3812
• CVE-2023-5178

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important